The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-03-03
NATIONAL NOTES.
What Was Done at the Capt.
tai Wednesday.
THE TEXAS INVESTIGATION
ElectiOns-B erlin Opposed to
the Septenuate-Etc.
News of the Nation /.

WASHINGTON, March 2. - Public
Printer Benedict has been confirmed by
the Senate.
In the case of the British Indians
wishing to emigrate into Alaska, the
Acknowledgement decides that the
immigration of peaceful individual
Indians who have dissolved tribal re-
lations is not prohibited by the statute,
and is not inconsistent with the general
policy of the government, but there is
no provision in the law assuring to
such foreign Indians any legal rights to
acquire lands; neither can the Presi-
dent set aside reservation for their
occupation.
THEIR WIVES CAN'T COME.
The Department has decided
that the wife of Chinese
laborer is a person whose original
entry into this country is prohibitory
by the Chinese restriction act.
Acting Secretary Fairchild has for
warded to the Senate, in response to
Senator Aldrich's resolution, calling
for information in regard to the impor-
tation of
DISTILLED SPIRITS BONDED FOB EXPORT
two long reports, prepared by
the Commissioner of Internal Revenue
In. the first report the Commissioner
says it is now, and has been heretofore,
the practice of the Office to collect any
and all penalties, and the interest that
has accrued on such spirits. The Sec
ond report is document of over 100
pages of foolscap, and reviews every
action of the department bearing on
the question, together with the author
ity for so doing. 1t also refers at
length to the charges made of the al
legged fraudulent practices in connection
with the expectation and reimporta-
they were without foundation. ~
Col. D. q. Geddings, Congressman
from Texas, and counsel for the Demo-
cratic side, was the principal witness
before H..
THE TEXAS INVESTIGATING COMMITTEE
to-day. He said he took no active part
in the contest. He went to the meeting
at Brennan, because he was in favor OF
law and order, and advised abstinence
from all acts of violence. He had
always advised against any resort to
mob law. One of the memorialists after
wards said that his Pacific course had
probably. saved his (the memorialist'sl
life. There was great dissatisfaction
with the Republican administration,
and threats had been repeatedly made
to prosecute the officials. He thought
that the unpopularity of the memo
rialists was not due to their republican
views, but to the fact that they
MANIPULATED THE coLoRED VOTE,
and placed incompetent men in Office.
He said the reputation of the memo
rialists was bad; that they were repub-
licans for revenue only, and that when
they failed of success in 1884, their repu-
tation was gone, and they hav-
ing lost their prestige, they
wanted to leave. It was his
opinion that they decided to pose as
martyrs before the country and be able
to secure recognition in the case OF the
ascendency of the Republican party. The
reason people had not rebelled before,
was because they were peaceab'e and
lawabiding people and he believed that
the people in no country in any state in
the east, south or west, would submit
to such Republican methods of admin
istration one year, much less than
twenty as they had done.
The testimo y of Col. Geddings closed
the evidence for the defense, and the
com mittee adjourned till tomorrow,
when evidence in rebuttal will be sub
mitted.